Kiln

When there is no higher purpose to life, life becomes easy. It just becomes about accumulating wealth and resources. It didn't have to be this way. Once one has made it in life, they turn to society to give back to it, but when the providence is political and people's life is pre-decided there remains nothing to give back to the society because nothing you give back to society is going to help and then only form of giving back that remains is acute, like feeding a hungry to ease their hunger pangs for a while. How did things devolve to this? Things were always like this, as the leper sitting at Har Ki Paidi in Haridwar in the 90s would tell you, and yet Mother Teresa who washed the wounds of the lepers is blamed because she converted the dying to Christianity before dying. The dying need dignity and not debates about religion. When everything is a hundred percent control to the point of privileged playing videogame with your life in the name of fate and destiny, life becomes simple. You can chill, have fun and focus on accumulating. 90s were not heaven, but at least the general narrative was good, Ranga Billa were identified as Ranga Billa. Now the population of Ranga Billa has increased and they are above the common God fearing man who prays twice a day. In a world like this exploration of space doesn't matter. While the people rejoice an astronaut from the country going to space, the truth is now the slavery will travel wherever we go, even the space. When humanity couldn't evolve 2000 years after Christ there is no possibility that it ever will. Those who think of people as animals on earth, will think of people as animals in space. That's how it works, thinking other people as inferior to soothe ones ego and it is this kind of individuals who run the show. For the common man, having fun is important, getting the priorities straight is important. It's not pessimism to say humanity is doomed, it's pattern recognition, and it's not that humanity is doomed it's just that a class of humans think of people as animals. You might end up getting flying cars and even spacecrafts but the last bastion that kept humans human, the ownership of their own minds and bodies, their autonomy, has fallen and that means you'd be a slave even if you traverse wormholes in space. All that remains is love, it would torture you, but it is all that remains. Flying cars are not going to soothe the souls, only connection will, and if all connections are severed the priority should be first establishing connection with your own soul.